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Games
Ever Seen Crysis Played On A Mobile Phone?
1:00AM Adam Frucci | Crysis is the current standard bearer for PC game graphics. If your computer can run Crysis well, it’s a pretty impressive setup. So it’s pretty nuts to see Crysis running smoothly on a Samsung Omnia mobile phone. More »
Computers
A $US500 PC That Rocks Out Crysis
11:20PM Matt Buchanan | Okay, for $US699, you might not be able to buy the best laptop in the world. But for $US500, you can build a PC that plays Crysis at a solid 40 frames per second. More »
Games
OnLive Demos Streaming Games: Yes, That’s Crysis on Integrated Graphics
9:55PM John Herrman | I’ll grant that OnLive—the streaming game service that its makers claim will bring high-end games to virtually any PC or TV—borders on implausible, but you gotta beliiieevve! For the haters, here’s a demo video. More »
Software
Windows 7 Vs. Vista: Which Runs Crysis Fasterer?
12:10AM Matt Buchanan | ATI and Nvidia have had plenty of time to fine-tune their graphics monsters for Windows 7, so with the latest drivers, Extremetech answers that burning question: Is Windows 7 or Vista faster for games? More »
Hardware
Ex-Apple Engineers’ Caustic Startup Promises 200x Faster Ray-Tracing Graphics by 2010 (Suck It, Crysis)
12:40PM Matt Buchanan | Caustic Graphics, a startup from ex-Apple engineers, thinks that their approach to 3D graphics—ray-tracing—will result in way more realistic eye candy than you see today, with chips that are 200x faster than today’s by 2010. More »
Software
Windows 7 Is OK, But Can It Run Crysis?
12:50AM Mark Wilson | We’ve all heard about Windows 7’s speed gains over Vista, but how does it run Crysis? More »
Computers
Falcon Northwest Mach V: Fastest PC Yet Runs Crysis at 60FPS
3:45AM Jesus Diaz | According to Cnet test labs, the Falcon Northwest Mach V is the fastest PC on the planet, beating the Alienware Area-51 ALX. How fast you ask? How about being the first PC ever to hit 60 frames per second running Crysis on the highest graphics preset? Yes. That fast. More »
Computers
Hands On Cray CX1 Windows Supercomputer: One Day, It’ll Make Crysis Cry
1:30AM Matt Buchanan | Cray’s CX1 supercomputer looks oddly petite in its weird press shot, but we checked it out in person today, and it’s actually like a small sarcophagus loaded with computer guts instead of actual guts. Unfortunately, it’s still fairly early in the getting-going phase, so they don’t have a lot of software running for it, much less anything that’ll drill your eyeballs like Crysis at 6000FPS—though I think I convinced them that a Crysis test is absolutely critical. galleryPost('craycx1', 3, ''); More »
Computers
Crysis Warhead Ultra Optimised PC Comes with Face-Melting Specs… for US$700?
10:30AM Wilson Rothman | The guys at GameCyte are keyed up to try out Crysis Warhead on the Optimised PC, a Core 2 Duo E7300, GeForce 9800GT system built by Ultra and vetted by game developer Crytek to bring the game fully to life (and death). The clincher: It only costs US$700. Since the GameCyte guys thought this was too good to be true, they started asking Ultra some uncomfortable questions. More »
Computers
